Tate Talks - The MSP Podcast Chris Tate - MSP Strategist, JumpCloud

Welcome to Tate Talks



This is the final episode of Season Seven and it was great to end it chatting to MSP legend and all round good egg, Christian Nagele.


About Christian

From my early career at PricewaterHouse Coopers, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, I felt drawn to small, entrepreneurial businesses. This led me to found CentraStage in 2007, with the goal of delivering a simple, affordable cloud-based endpoint management technology.Driving a software start-up through a recession required an interesting blend of skills, determination and commitment, which resulted in CentraStage being acquired in 2014 by US-headquartered Autotask (backed by Vista Equity Partners). This heralded a wonderful opportunity to take our technology global, a journey which continued to accelerate following our merger with Datto in December 2017. Three more years of electric growth and we grew revenues 30x since acquisition, becoming the market leader in our sector. Datto IPO'd on the NYSE in November 2020. After 15 years building and growing CentraStage it was time for a new challenge, and after a year working with SenseOn, a UK Series A cybersecurity company, I am delighted to be joining forces again with former colleagues to help drive the UK tech success story that is 1E.


Connect with Christian on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠and check out the 1E website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to Tate Talks

Today I had the great pleasure of speaking with my good friend, MSP industry legend & best dressed man in the channel, Eric Torres of ScalePad.
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About Eric

With over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, building both a top-tier MSP as well as one of the top data security vendors, Eric shares his knowledge and experience with the IT channel. As VP, Channel, he brings expertise in business continuity and the MSP community, accompanied by a passion for educating the business community on the ever-changing cybersecurity threat landscape.

 
Connect with Eric on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠and check out the ScalePad website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to Tate Talks


In this week's Tate Talks we chatted to aspiring weather woman and MSP finance expert Heather Alford. We started off the conversation by talking for, some might say, far too long about socks before learning more about her career and how her company helps MSPs.

Books we discussed

Price Package Profit by Nigel Moore

All my friends are super heroes -  Andrew Kaufman

About Heather

Heather is the founder of Counting Creators, Virtual Finance Department to MSPs. She passionately believes that if you can see your numbers, you can clearly direct the profitable path of your business. Her 20+ years industry experience & professional FMAAT accreditation demonstrates her capability to support MSPs transition to a place of knowledge-based decision making. Blindly running your business will lead to either accidental success or more likely crashing and burning.

 

Heather is an advocate for personal growth, Neurodiversity & people with an unhealthy sock fetish. While she is a true Scot, she doesn't like the cold & doesn't eat haggis.

 
Connect with Heather on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out the Counting Creators website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to Tate Talks

During this Tate Talks podcast I had a chat with international rugby player, James Bergl.
Our paths have crossed many times over the years so it was really good to catch up, learn a bit more about James and what he's currently working on.It was also great to chat about our mutual friend, Pat McKay.
We chatted about his career from N-Able. Autotask. Datto and Pax8.

As he's in Australia we naturally chatted about barbecue and how MSPs can get distracted by things such as AI and the risks around it.

Podcasts Mentioned
Have a guess - ⁠The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett | No.1 Podcast⁠

About James
Experienced Channel Sales Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry, but specifically in the MSP & Reseller Channel across EMEA & APAC. Skilled in Leadership, Go-to-market, New Business Sales, Sales Coaching & Building Teams , Start-ups

Connect with James on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out the Bluebird website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to Season Seven of Tate Talks

In this episode I chatted to Gregg Lalle of ConnectWise

About Gregg

MSP leader with over 14 years in the space – entrepreneurial spirit with a history of starting and growing businesses from incubation.   Former SVP of International Sales for ConnectWise and now SVP and GM of IT Nation.



Connect with Gregg on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out the ConnectWise website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠



Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to Season Seven of Tate Talks



We kick off with an excellent chat with Mostyn Thomas, Senior Director of Security, EMEA at Pax8



We covered a lot of topics including the barking dog in Hound dog, big wallets of CDs and the 3 Cybers.



Podcasts Mentioned

Tate Talks (Obviously)

TubbTalk Podcast - Tubblog: The Hub for MSPs

The Business of Tech – MSP Radio: The Voice of the Solution Provider

High Performance (thehighperformancepodcast.com)

IT Experts Podcast with Ian Luckett (libsyn.com)

and my arch nemesis when it comes to the podcast charts The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett | No.1 Podcast



Books

The Extra Mile - Kevin Sinfield

Limitless - Jim Kwik

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Rebel Ideas - Matthew Syed

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect - Will Guidara



and it wouldn't be a Tate Talks without...

Atomic Habits - James Clear



About Mostyn

Mostyn Thomas is a cybersecurity expert and Senior Director of Security at Pax8 EMEA, where he leads security operations and delivers impactful cybersecurity training for partners. With over two decades of experience leading a MSP, Mostyn's expertise enhances partner security, mitigates risks, and fosters growth. His commitment to cybersecurity education has a profound impact within the tech community. As a qualified Cyber Essentials assessor, he holds security qualifications from CompTIA, the British Computer Society, and the National Cyber Security Centre.



Connect with Mostyn on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out the Pax8 website ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠





Music - https://www.purple-planet.com